Love Wilts, love the stones….

Once again it will no doubt be suggested that it’s OK as it’s a good cause but since the cause could be promoted elsewhere, please indulge those of us who feel “good cause” isn’t an excuse to do whatever comes to mind and don’t do it. In the words of Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site Friends …….

Sorry, I don’t agree with using monuments for advertising no matter how much I agree with the sentiment of the protest. It demeans the site, encouraging people to use it merely for any reason without respect for the importance of the monument. We have had incidents of individuals daubing paint on the stones themselves not that long ago. Protest about fracking, I’ll gladly stand at your side, but do it where there isn’t a monument.

So aren’t make it up as you go along druids doing as much or more “conceptual” damage? Still doesn’t matter. “Do it where there isn’t a monument”, find somewhere in the Wiltshire countryside where there isn’t.

Third, I don’t think there’s as strong a connection between leaving offerings and damage as there is between brandalising (and similar) and damage. You seem to be determined to say there is and that druids are to blame. So be it.

You have been so keen to be offensive to Druids that you have completely missed the point that we are well aware of offerings at Swallowhead and elsewhere and don’t approve of it and that our opinion is shared by very many Druids who you so contemptuously dismiss. You really should check things before making sweeping and judgemental statements.